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title: In the height of his anxiety, he bethought him of an Arabian sage na… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the height of his anxiety, he bethought him of an Arabian sage named Yuza, who had accompanied him from Africa. Who acts: Suleiman, Yuza. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 46

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In the height of his anxiety, he bethought him of an Arabian sage named Yuza, who had accompanied him from Africa.

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, Yuza · **What happens:** bethink, name, accompany · **To what, where:** insurrection, height, Arabian sage, Africa

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suleiman, Yuza), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:39:46
# text = In the height of his anxiety, he bethought him of an Arabian sage named Yuza, who had accompanied him from Africa.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bethought	bethink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	Yuza	Yuza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bethink** | past | Suleiman | insurrection |  | the height of Suleiman's anxiety |  | of a Arabian sage | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a Arabian sage *not said here* |  |  |  | Yuza *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accompany** | past · perfect | Yuza | insurrection |  | Africa |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from africa=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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